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Cfye Jeffersonian.
Vol. 13, No. 52
the year draws near its end, we older
people look back over it, and make a men
tal note of those things which stand knit
clearly and distinctly above the others—above
the common level—as the hills above the
plains.
(1) Those who come after us will have
only»jtoo much cause To remember 1916, as the
year when European Militarism gained its
first permanent foothold in our Republic.
The legislation rushed through Congress
last summer commits the Federal Government
to three radical innovations, each of which is
a departure from democratic precedent and
principle.
We are now committed to a large standing
army, in time of peace, upon the plausible pre
text that we must always be prepared for war.
To be eternally prepared for a great war, is
not only, in the long run, as expensive as a
war, but logically creates the certainty that
war will come.
The insane notion that belligerence of mind/,
belligerence of preparation, belligerence
of preparation, and belligerence of attitude
and conduct, lead to peace, has at last taken
possession of our ruling powers, just as it
obsessed William Hohenzollern, Francis Jos
eph Hapsburg, and Nicholas Romanoff—
known to international flunkeyism as the di-
'T'HE young District Attorney who prose-
1 cuted me in the Federal Court, argued to
the jury that, if Rome's unmarried priests
were guilty of the systematic lewdness
charged upon them in my book on “The Ro
man Catholic Hierarchy,” the right way to
remedy the evil was to get indictments against
them in the counties where the crimes are com
mitted.
Such an argument reveals the extent of the
general misunderstanding of the subject.
If a capable District Attorney doesn’t know
any better than that, how can you expect the
average man to know the truth about it?
When the Italian priest, Petrarchi, raped a
Catholic woman in a Catholic Church, almost
in sight of the bloated old bigot, Cardinal
O'Connell, what did the Grand-jury do?
Nothing.
When the-Polish priest, Jajeski, ravished a
Catholic woman in her own home, and during
confession, what did the Grand-jury do?
NOTHING!
The violated Catholic woman tried to get
redress, and Archbishop Ireland had ample
time to have made an example of Jajeski; but
although the notoriously bad character of
Jajeski had been brought repeatedly to Ire
land’s notice, he utterly refused to do any
thing.
Then, the desperate woman took a pistol and
shot her despoiler to death, in church where he
It Happened In the Year 1916
HOW THE BACHELOR PRIESTS BEHAVE.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, December 21, 1916
vinely missioned Kaiser of Germany, Kaiser
of Austria, Czar of Russia.
The citizen whose thoughts are peaceful,
whose talk is pacific, whose conduct is ami
cable, and whose pockets are innocent of
deadly weapons, is mighty apt to meander
through life without shooting anybody, or
getting shot.
Nations, after all, are but individuals in the
mass: the public sentiment which controls a
nation, is created by individuals.
Therefore, when a war-like individual, such
as Louis XIV., Frederick the Great; Charles
the Twelfth of Sweden; Peter the Great of
Official Record of Watson Case,
Speeches of Counsel, Evi
dence, and Charge of Court
all set forth in
January, 1917, Number
WATSON’S MAGAZINE.
RUSH YOUR ORDERS.
was “confessing” other fool women.
Why are the Grand-juries helpless?
Because of the Pope's law of Motu Proprio
which forbids a Catholic to give evidence
against a priest, or to sue him, or to prosecute
him.
Thus, we have millions of American citi
zens, who take their law, as well as their re
ligion, from an Italian impostor living in a
foreign land.
If the Grand-jury of any county were mor-
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ally certain of vices and crimes in Good Shep
herd slave-pens, and among the imprisoned
nuns of convents, how could the evidence be
procured ?
Nuns dare not testify against priests. Priests
will not testify against one another.
How can you travel? Where are your wit
nesses ?
Even if a boy or girl escapes from cne of
those infernal un-American slave-holes, the
magistrates and the police are quick to treat
the fugitive like a convicted felon, by sending
Russia; Napolean Bonaparte; or the present
Kaiser of Germany, spends most of his time
thinking war and conquest, talking war and
conquest, planning war and conquest, and ex
ercising great armies in the art of /mw to
figlit, the whole thing would be absurdly il
logical, if there was no fight.
Disguise it as we may. preparedness for de
fense, naturally leads to offense.
1 he moment any person trains his physique
until he believes he is ‘’the best man” in the
community, he wants to deswonstrate it by
licki r g somebody.
In like manner, when a nation has trained
its military power; practised at sea and prac
tised on land; gone through maneuvers and
sham-battles; intoxicated itself upon adula
tion and pride, until it believes it can whip
creation—that nation has got its hair-trigger
set, and the slightest pressure will fire the
gun.
In other words, armaments, instead of
insuring PE ACE, insure JFA7?.
Wasn’t it so with Germany, before this rag
ing Armageddon ?
In July, 1914, the British Government im
plored the German cabinet to agree to a con
ference between representatives from France,
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him or her back into the Romish dungeon.
Brother Donaldson, how would you start
about making out your case?
Take that New Jersey nun whom I wrote
up, under the headline of “Another Maria
Monk case:'’ did Inspector Brannen make any
effort to punish the priests who committed the
crime ?
Not at all: his energies were directed against
?ne, for having told on the criminals.
According to the evidence in the Pollard-
Breckinridge case, tried in 1893, as I remem
ber, there had been 500 babes born in one of
the large convents in the neighborhood of the
national capital.
Who were the daddies?
Excepting a possible man-servant, occasion
ally, the only men who could have been the
debauchees of those nuns were the priests.
Having no wives, the nuns served them as
substitutes.
Do you imagine that those priests those
nuns were different from the others?
Men and women cannot safely defy Nature.
A full-sexed priest remains a man, in spite
of his “vows”; and the normal nun. remains a
woman, in spite of her veil.
Just before I went to trial partly because of
what The Jeffersonian said about the New
Jersey case, there appeared in the Twin-City
Reporter, of Minneapolis, a story of three
priests, as follows;
(continued on page three.)
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